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Hello and welcome to my morph edh deck!

The main goal of this deck is to have fun and play mind games with your opponents by putting unknown, potential threats on the board in the form of face down creatures.

This causal Edh deck wants to get creatures face down (whether they have morph or not). After that you can make big (and potentially lethal) plays that come out of nowhere to catch your opponent off guard, or control your opponents by suggesting that you have a scary face down creature. (There is nothing more satisfying then un-morphing a
Phage the Untouchable
right after they declare no blockers.)

Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa makes for a strong morph commander as he gives all of your face down 2/2's much needed evasion in the form of pseudo flying. This makes all of your face down creatures potential threats and makes your opponents stay on their toes.

Silas Renn, Seeker Adept can get you some key artifacts that get destroyed, or help you recover after a complete board wipe. He also gets the evasion from Sidar Kondo of Jamuraa, and don't underestimate the power of having a creature deathtouch, it can be a great rattlesnake.

While this deck does have traditional morphing creatures, the main way we get creatures without morph face down on the battlefield is by manifesting them.

Illusionary Mask
is a strange card and a great morphing machine, but I suggest you go read the updated oracle text on it because the text on the card is just bonkers. Basically it allows you to put any creature face down for it's mana cost (or more if you want to hide it's identity), and you turn it face up if it taps or deals/receives damage.

Morphing and manifesting is expensive (especially with high cmc creatures). These are a few 'more specific' choices for the mana base of the deck.

Lands

I included all the available scrylands for more control over the top of the deck, which means more control over your manifesting.

Felidar Sovereign can be a nasty surprise. Just make sure you have enough life, then un-morph during the end of your opponents turn and win on your upkeep .

These cratures can't one shot, but will still take out big chunks of life. They also have a negative effect as a downside to their low CMC, but you should be able to avoid it using manifest. Eater of Days |
Hunted Troll
|
Phyrexian Dreadnought

Play mind games with your opponents using the power of suggestion to gain leverage over them. Just mention these and it will make your opponents think twice about playing a big game swinging spell.

Spell Manipulators

Glen Elendra Archmage. A pretty basic counterspell but it can be a nice surprise if you can get it face down.

While normally I'm not a big fan of loading up my deck with tutors, they can be quite interesting in this deck. Tutors that reveal the card to your opponents can make the mind games all the more interesting.

Tutors

Wargate is just too good not to include, but doesn't really have any synergy with the deck.

Congregation at Dawn. This is probably my favorite tutor in the deck. It allows your to show three scary creatures and put them on the top, after that you can manifest them or just draw them into your hand.

Insidious Dreams
can get rid of a junk late game hand and keep your manifesting engines working at their max potential.

Vampiric Tutor is the best tutor for getting one of your four killers manifested onto the board.

Fact or Fiction. While not a tutor, It can accomplish the same effect as many reveal tutors.

These are just remaining utility cards and some tips for playing this deck.

Other Notable Cards

Eldrazi Displacer is meant to flip your face down lands and artifacts that you may have manifested. He can also flip creatures, just don't flip any with negative ETB effects, (
Phage the Untouchable
for example).

Tips!

Try not to tap out if possible. You lose all your leverage over your opponents if you can't flip your creatures. Also with
Mastery of the Unseen
, just manifest at the end of your opponents turns.

Try to get a manifesting engine out as soon as possible, otherwise this deck has a tendency to drop dead later in the game.

Make sure you keep track of how your creatures are getting face down. There are three different rules for flipping up creatures depending on how they were put there.

With
Illusionary Mask
if you have a load of mana just sitting there, try masking your creatures to match
Phage the Untouchable
mana cost. It will make your opponents very uneasy and that's already a win in my book.

September 14, 2017
8:13 a.m.

September 14, 2017
8:37 p.m.

I've been considering building a deck like this and including some BA eldrazis. You might consider adding some manifest cards, as well as some flicker junk. If you have a morph/manifested creature on the field and it exiles, when it re-enters it comes in face-up.

@SirSh4ggy I am trying to avoid one-off manifest cards because they don't do a lot in the long run. Flicker cards don't really do morph cards justice, because I cant attack with a face down creature and hit with a face up creature. They are good at flipping unwanted manifested creatures though. I think I will try out Lightform and Deadeye Navigator for the extra life gain and reusable flicker.

September 19, 2017
7:25 p.m.

Exxie97 actually, since turning them face up doesn't use the stack, and after blockers are declared you're able to instant speed flicker, they can hit as their flipped form. Snapcaster Mage gets em back for you, and a 10-drop eldrazi for 3 is pretty good.

September 20, 2017
1:30 p.m.

@Exxie97 He is confusing flipping and flickering. Flickered Creatures leave combat and have summoning sickness, Flipped creatures do not.

Roon of the Hidden Realm exists in your colors and can be used to unflip specific creatures after your opponents swing out, as a means of defense, or to repeat powerful ETB Triggers such as Ixidron and with Voidslime's stifle effect, or Sundial of the Infinite (Which can also prevent detrimental ETB effects) you can permanently exile creatures... even Commanders.

September 20, 2017
7:21 p.m.

@Barsan Thanks for clearing that up, the rules on morph are a bit strange so I wasn't sure.

Wow, never even heard of Fractured Identity, Ill definitely try and find a spot for this. (It's so mean with Phage the Untouchable, I love it XD).Roon of the Hidden Realm is a interesting one. He does provide a lot of useful utility, but I'm not sure if I have enough cards that work well with him to make him worth it. I'll definitely give him a try though.Sundial of the Infinite is kinda in the same boat as Roon of the Hidden Realm (obviously it would work better if I included both of them). I do like how easily accessible it is, I think almost all my tutors can hit a two mana artifact.I think I'll end up just cutting Voidslime. Thanks for the note on Disallow though.I know Felidar Sovereign is cheesy in EDH, but the fact that my opponents always have to look out for it s partly why I use it.

Thanks again for all the great suggestions.

September 20, 2017
9 p.m.

Also of Note:Zoetic Cavern feels like it belongs, optional and weird mana acceleration is kind of cool on it's own but with other scary morph cards it's a threat.

Vanish into Memory is also a neat card for card draw and the magic it works for manifest cards. If you hit a token or a non creature flipped card you draw 2 and the toughness and discard are 0. Hit an opponent's 20/20 Avatar... good times. And if worst comes to worst you hit your opponent's bomb on their endstep and play out your hand before the discard on yours.

Dark Depths might be good in your deck if you could manifest it and turn it face up but Thing in the IceFlip would really appreciate the flip. It would sit there waiting for you to cast an instant or sorcery to transform it and bounce everybody's creatures.

Sorry about all the comments, I really appreciate themed decks and yours is full of potential.

Thing in the IceFlip seems like a nice beater/board wipe to include. However I can't cheat it in with Illusionary Mask due to it being a double faced card, but that dose make it immune to Ixidron. I'll give it a try to see how reliable it is.

Again thank you for all of your suggestions. If you have any more cards you think might fit don't hesitate to let me know. I really appreciate all of your feedback.

September 22, 2017
5:53 p.m.

Exxie97 Double faced cards can now be manifested and played face down via mask. I believe the rule change came during the SOI because the transform mechanic was so prolific in that set and they were worried about sleeved decks misplaying. So it's no longer immune to Ixidon, unfortunately. But it can be Cheated into play.

September 22, 2017
7:02 p.m.

I really like this deck, and you obviously have put a lot of work into it. +1

In your description, you mention flipping Felidar Sovereign during your untap step. If I recall correctly, you can't cast spell or activate abilities during the untap step, so you would have to flip him at the end of your opponent's turn if you want him to trigger during your upkeep (which shouldn't make any real difference, but it is worth noting).

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